VACo has released its 2026 Preliminary Legislative Program, which was drafted through VACo’s steering committee process. The document includes a host of important and timely proposed policy statements including language pertaining to K-12 education funding,
VACo has released its 2026 Preliminary Legislative Program, which was drafted through VACo’s steering committee process. The document includes a host of important and timely proposed policy statements including language pertaining to K-12 education funding,
A bill seeking to compensate local governments for the costs associated with local jails failed to advance out of the House Public Safety Committee on
The Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee has greenlit Delegate Kathy Tran’s new requirements for reporting discharges of deleterious substances into state waters, voting to report
HB 520 (Bulova) has successfully passed the full Senate by a vote of 33-3 and will now head back across the hall to the House of
Senator Monty Mason’s bill pertaining to local government urban fertilizer programs successfully passed the full House of Delegates on Monday morning by a 63-36 vote
HB 220 (Krizek) would require absentee ballots to be sent to voters with postage prepaid. Given the expected increase in absentee voting by mail in
SB 826 (McDougle) proposes a dollar limit on the lien a locality may place on real estate for unpaid water and sewer bills of tenants
The House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee reported their respective budgets on Sunday, February 16. The full text of the budget
A problematic bill that mandated local governments supplement public defenders’ salaries was defeated in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday night. HB 869 (Bourne) requires that
The fate of several bills codifying changes to the Standards of Quality (SOQ) prescribed by the Virginia Board of Education (VBOE) remains uncertain. HB 1316
Senator Monty Mason’s bill about local government urban fertilizer programs reported out of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday morning by
HB 585 (Guzman), which requires localities to adopt Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) plans was amended in the Senate Local Government Committee by making it optional. Specifically,
HB 727 (Hope) / SB 720 (McClellan) mandate that all 911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) provide training and equipment to every dispatcher in Telecommunicator
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